Procurement Manager - Construction

Job description / Role

One of the Globe’s leading Project management consultancies is looking for a Procurement manager to join their project team in Morocco. You will be responsible for procurement on large scale hospitality projects, negotiating with suppliers and working with the procurement and contracts team to ensure project and tender profitability.

As the successful procurement manager you will be responsible for:
- Procurement of materials across the projects lifecycle, ensuring correct quantity and time purchasing to ensure minimising of lead time delays and over purchasing
- Developing relationships with suppliers and sub-contractors to ensure a commercially strong procurement strategy
- Tender to potential new suppliers on a project stage basis
- Liaise with the project team to ensure accurate procurement timelines
- Commercial risk management on contracts, analyse variations and implement strategies to minimise risk
- Negotiate cost savings and supplier key performance indicators
- Liaise with the costing team to develop project cash flow schedule and ensure profitability

Requirements

- A bachelor’s degree in construction management, Quantity surveying or related subject
- At least 15 years working in procurement for large scale construction projects
- Experience working on Large scale hospitality and Hotel projects is essential
- MRICS accredited is a must
- Fluency in English
- In depth knowledge of working on FIDIC contracts
- Strong commercial acumen and commercial skills
- Excellent organisational and planning skills with the ability to react to variations in requirement and contract as well as anticipate site needs and reduce lead time delays
- The ability to work in a fast paced high pressure environment with changing demands

This opportunity would be a great career move for someone looking to progress to a senior position within one of the best regarded project management consultancies globally, with a pipeline of exciting projects.

About the Company

Millar Cameron has over 15 years resource solutions experience, serving both the international and domestic recruitment market.

Our clients know they can rely on us to put forward only the most suitable candidates, we believe our requirement to placement ratio is second to none. We are renowned for our speed of response, in most instances being able to provide a ‘same day’ service from receipt of the brief to submission of relevant CV’s.

Our belief is that ‘prevention is better than intervention’ and strive hard to ensure we get the right person for the job. Our commitment doesn’t stop when a placement is agreed; we follow through with both parties to ensure everyone is satisfied. Such is our success rate that in an average year less than 3% of our candidates have to be replaced—a figure that is all the more significant when one considers the extremely challenging environments that many of our placements are in.